Atheists in Church

Originally posted by whodey
I would say that the book of Job was written to help answer such questions. If memory serves, it is considered to be the oldest book in the Old Testament.

What?!? it is, at earliest, 7th BCE. (Proto-)Isaiah is at least a
hundred years older. Jeremiah is probably older, but certainly no
younger than the oldest possible date for Job. Hosea and Amos are
probably older, and maybe Micah and Nahum, too.

Several others are likely contemporaneous (like Habakkuk or Zephaniah),
such that it is impossible that one could claim that Job is certainly older
than they.

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